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...She is the former chief executive of the Aerospace Corporation. Apple also said that Al Gore and James Bell would retire from the board this year....
...Globally, insurance companies manage assets of about $44tn, according to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors....
...COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber is also the boss of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company....
...And some concrete investment has been announced: $50mn from the New York State pension fund; £4mn from insurance technology company Frontline; a Bank of America-funded skills scheme for students from disadvantaged...
...There is also acknowledgment that much of the kind of state-of-art tech the Gulf wants to tap into is being developed by American companies....
...But there’s another royal tycoon that tends to slip under the radar: MBZ’s brother Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the United Arab Emirate’s national security adviser who also controls some of the country...
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
...are so focused on how the Federal Deposit Insurance Company’s eventual sale of Signature Bank’s property portfolio goes and how much the buildings fetch)....
...In August, he barred managers of the state’s $186bn pension fund from considering environmental and sustainability issues when investing. Then there is Florida’s property insurance market....
...The decision has led to the legalised bribery that afflicts US politics. Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...Half a century ago, the Yom Kippur war between Israel and Arab states put a new cartel of oil producers at the centre of global politics....
...In cinema at least, it is a symbol of good times and uncertain motives — the place a story gets to at the edge of America....
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...In 1996, senator John McCain, a huge boxing fan, had railed against the UFC on the floor of the US Senate, calling it “human cockfighting”, and sent letters to the governor of every state asking them to...
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...Our insurance company wrote to say we would no longer be covered. The woman who looked after my 88-year-old mother told me she was going to leave....
...In the UAE, the state and about 14 companies, including Al Dahra, co-ordinate overseas projects under the umbrella of a “food security alliance” set up in 2015, and have invested in 19 countries, including...
...Most states also require incoming operators to have a “market access” agreement with a US company so, as James Kilsby, US managing director of Gambling Compliance puts it, “the European and international...
...Barclays’ legal team apologised to Amanda Staveley, the financier at the heart of the proposed Saudi-led takeover of Newcastle United, after comments were accidentally broadcast to the public....
...Plus, a rift is deepening in the insurance industry over the costs of the pandemic....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
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